Dear Supporters,
Many of you probably predicted that I would not be saying this today, but this message is not a dream: You came up with yet another $100,000 payment — now making a total of $400,000 provided to the Arvay team.
In the last twelve days you actually donated more than $40,000 — an amazing achievement for small donors. This accomplishment proves to all those people who want us to fail — that we are very determined.
You gave until it hurt and then you gave a lot more. It’s hard not to get teary-eyed over the generosity of our supporters, who have come through every time.
We know that the pace of your litigation is painfully slow, and this is unfortunately as expected. The Government will continue to do its best to slow down the process, but we now have the assistance of a case management judge to help keep the process moving more fairly.
We filed in August 2014 and it has taken a very long time (one year) before we are finally into a (summary) trial (August 4-5, 2015). We cannot predict the outcomes of this trial, based on only part of our arguments and, with your continued support, we will prepare for all possibilities.
[Happy birthday Gwen!]
Thank you for your trust,
Stephen Kish,
ADCS-ADSC Chair,— on behalf of Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen, their families, and the ADCS-ADSC Directors
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Chers amis et donateurs,
Certains d’entre vous avaient probablement pensé que je ne pourrais pasvous annoncer une si bonne nouvelle aujourd’hui. Mais voilà : ensemble, nous avons réussi à ramasser un autre montant de 100 000 $, ce qui fait un total de 400 000 $ à remettre à l’équipe de MeArvay.
Dans les 12 derniers jours seulement, vous avez donné plus de 40 000 $, un exploit tout à fait extraordinaire pour des « petits donateurs ». À tous ceux qui souhaitent nous voir échouer, cette réussite prouve que nous sommes des plus déterminés. Et que nous réussirons.
Vous avez donné jusqu’à ce que ça fasse mal, puis vous avez donné encore. Difficile de rester insensible devant une si grande générosité.
Nous sommes bien conscients du fait que notre litige avance de façon péniblement lente. Malheureusement, tout ça est normal. Le gouvernement continue à ralentirle processus, mais on nous a maintenant attitré un juge responsable de la gestion de notre dossier qui veillera à ce que le processus progresse de façon plus juste.
En août 2014, nous avons engagé une poursuite contre le gouvernement canadien. Près d’un an plus tard, nous avons enfin la date pour notre procès sommaire : les 4 et 5 août 2015. Impossible de prévoir le dénouement de ce procès, basé uniquement sur une partie de nos arguments juridiques. Mais avec votre appui, nous serons prêts pour toutes les possibilités.
(Bonne fête, Gwen !)
Au nom de nos deux plaignantes, Ginny et Gwen, de leurs familles et des directeurs de l’ADCS-ADSC, je vous remercie de votre confiance.
Stephen Kish,
Président de l’ADCS-ADSC
@Bubblebustin, not just any old herd. There are many clever cows and bulls in Brockersville.
Moooooooo!
@ WhiteKat
Well there are other terms too — like push polls and the Angus Reid poll has come under criticism for not using a truly randomized sampling. And timing is also a factor. That poll was done when people were still captivated by a fear campaign and before the true nature of Bill C-51 began to emerge. (There was method in the Cons’ madness to do Bill C-51 fast and furtive.) Take a look at this for instance …
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/03/11/toets-terrorism-mailout-a-joke
I don’t know about the Brock herd self-selection thing, I’m just grateful that they are there with the facts when the facts are needed.
@WhiteKat @Bubblebustin Re: “when only Brockers comment on FATCA articles.” @Charl had a term for this: that article was “Brocked.” It is certainly a better result than when the naysayers get the upper-hand.
@Watchers After you have sent in your monthly donation to ADCS, you might consider joining the heard on some of the article comment sections. Bovine passivity will not ‘make it happen,’ More like Carpe Diem. Check under the Take Action! section in grey on the right “Comment at Current Media & Blog Articles’ for recent articles. And join in.
One good aim is to recruit more to the Isaac Brock Community.
I would say Twitter is more dominated by Brockers/Brock sympathizers these days under #FATCA than was the case six months ago. I myself am yet to venture into Facebook yet it will happen.
@JC @WhiteKat
Join the “heard”? Intentional or not, it’s brilliant.
Beware of the “Brockersville heard”.
Interesting comments re the emergence of the new Chinese (BRICS) alternative system. And FATCA raises its head.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11473983/The-UK-is-stuck-in-the-middle-as-the-US-and-China-fight-it-out-for-financial-supremacy.html
@WhiteKat @JC
The thing about being a member of the herd is that you know when you’re knee deep in bullsh@@t !
@Lake Superior Guy. FATCA is anti-family, no bullshit.
http://tiny.cc/ANTIFAMILY
@Bubblebustin Yes “Join the Heard” would be appropriate. We may draw some similarities to the story: Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss.
All the members of our Whoville need to join in to the Heard to make as much noise as possible to be heard.
Except in our case we don’t have a curious, compassionate, and concerned Horton to come to our rescue. Although there is a helpful Elephant in the room in the form of Republicans Overseas.
Our advantage of course is ADCS and legal action to force hearing of our Heard, and force changes in laws that impact us. Outdoing Whoville in being Heard is also part of it.
I guess getting past the Christmas crunch only got us to the March break. We’re past half way through the donation period and not even one-third of the way towards the May 1st goal. I know the regular contributors are feeling depleted so let’s hope some first-timers will step up and perhaps donate because of the help they received here which got them through the renunciation/relinquishment process (it was invaluable for my husband’s journey to his CLN) or perhaps simply because they found a forum where everyone knows their pain. And is it just too starry-eyed of me to continue to hope for a Mr. or Mrs. Deep Pocket to come along?
Yikes! That thermometer is stalled while the amount needed per day is going up. Where is everyone?
Pension cheque on March 31. I know every little bit helps. Just being able to come here and find solace with my new found friends is incentive enough plus the fact that we will win this. I know it!
@ Ann
Yes — solace — a good word for it. Although not too much yesterday when things got a bit testy on the Media & Blog thread, enough that my spirits nose-dived. (And it didn’t help that I was tuckered out from shoveling a foot and a half of heavy, almost-Spring, snow that day either.) Anyway, we’re back on track today so let’s set our eyes on the prize. Surgite!
@Ann @Embee: It continues to boggle my mind that pensioners are regularly sending in their donations while folks with deep pockets ignore us and let the Little People fight this battle.
I hope some of those Deep Pockets and lurkers who have learned from and benefited from Brock and Sandbox but who have not donated yet will join us in helping Gwen and Ginny fight this battle. We need everyone in this fight.
There is something so wrong about seeing a wealthy, industrialised nation (the USA) embarking on a witch hunt to find “non-compliant” US Persons (most of whom owing nothing in taxes in any case) who are already tax-compliant where they reside. One simply cannot be both criminally non-compliant and impeccably tax-compliant at the same time; it makes absolutely no sense!
@Ann@EmBee@Blaze:
It is quite frankly a shock to see that thermometer stuck!
And as worrisome to learn that most of us have not the deep pockets to fund this thing but we do all we can when the rest of the world sails by. Pensioners R Us does more to fund the lawsuit while our tax dollars goes to fight us with delays and legal machinations. It is just egregious!!
At what I guess is our average age here, it is not realistic to hope for a Sugar Daddy, but maybe one or two has a soft spot for old babes and hunks??
Really, are ALL the billionaires like Soros? No conservative with big bucks who would not LOVE to see this thing fly?
Perhaps all the hoopla over Bill C-51 might spur on comment and thought on losing not only privacy but entire financial freedom for those relegated to the second class section of the country!! It appears that there is opposition to this upcoming bill C-51 with good reason. Imagine a secret police with no restraints in CANADA! Uproar is from coast to coast !
Comparisons to what happened with the IGA and subsequent ramifications and harm can easily be made and should be anywhere we can do that.
As for the ticker for funds, WE WILL get it done!!
This litigation is the last defense in Canada. How many countries have jumped on the Fatca bandwagon and signed their IGA? How many citizens have filed suit against their home government? Just the Canadians as far as I know.
Just my $0.02 on why the thermometer seems stuck…I think this issue has almost completely fallen off the radar of the mainstream media around the world. The only sites that seem to be carrying FATCA stories lately are small ones or ones that are on the looney, conspiracy fringe (or appear to be in that direction, thereby hurting our cause more than helping). I’m not sure what it will take, but we need to get this issue back into the mainstream headlines. This withering away of attention to the issue is exactly what the IRS and their Canadian subsidiary, the Harper government, want. Only away from the light of day will they continue to gain traction in eroding the rights and sovereignty of the other nations of the world and their citizens.
Les Misérables comes to mind in all of this. Jean Valjean had a yellow passport and was turned away by innkeepers because it marked him as a convict. He slept in the street. It was the little people who protested for change. It’s often the little people who fight injustice while the big ones look on helplessly.
The ADCS suit is the only thing that will force the Canadian government and Canadian media to take notice of our opposition to FATCA extortion cloaked in the IGA.
In this article, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/how-ottawa-left-us-ambassador-bruce-heyman-out-in-the-cold/article23514669/ nowhere is the FATCA IGA forced on us mentioned even in passing – though it is being paid for at a very steep price by ALL Canadian taxpayers. The maltreatment of Canadian citizens and residents that the US claims dominion over is nowhere mentioned. The US pursuit and persecution of Canadians residing her at home – in our own sovereign autonomous country, from afar by the US with the assistance of our own Canadian government as proxy, is nowhere mentioned.
Supporting and funding the legal challenge is a way to demonstrate the strength of the opposition to FATCA as the newest manifestation of the extraterritorial intrusion of US might and CBT on Canadian soil.
I believe that supporting this Canadian legal challenge – will be growing the seed that inspires resistance to FATCA in the EU, and elsewhere.
Bite the US FATCAhand cloaked in the Canadian IGA glove that does not feed us yet binds so many fast and holds individuals and families against their will.
It feels good to contribute to getting this injustice aired in a formal public venue.
Donate to the ADCS challenge now – help us excise the FATCA tumour.
A (modest) donation from Belgium will be coming in next week.
@All:
From Paul Craig Roberts:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/17/cracks-washingtons-empire-paul-craig-roberts/
Canada has a Renminbi hub, just recently established.
All these countries are trying to get out of the system that appears to be heading for a collapse.
Will news Canada is joining be forthcoming?
From the article:
“Washington uses its development banks such as the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, along with the IMF, in order to exercise financial and political hegemony. These banks are crucial elements of American economic and political imperialism.
The Chinese-led bank will, of course, be much more effective. The Chinese will use the bank to actually help countries and thereby make friends and grow trust, whereas Washington uses its banks for domination by force.
This new bank, together with the BRICS Bank, will provide countries with escape routes from Washington’s domination.”
As mentioned by Tricia on another thread I think.
Also, we cannot be reminded enough, IMO, that Canada could easily have spared Canadians from the vicious destruction of FATCA with just one sentence inserted into the IGA before passage. (Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents exempt)
What worries me the most is the recklessness of authorities in WA.
If that country goes down financially, Canada will be drug down as well just as surely as a flea on a drowning elephant.
Here is the News announcement Paul Craig Roberts is referring to:
http://thebricspost.com/eu-allies-defy-us-to-join-china-led-asian-bank/#.VQs8rdLF_rJ
@FuriousAC
Predictions of a “tectonic shift”. I can hardly wait.
The Hill: March 16, 2015, 02:00 pm
Will Australia, Canada and others follow Britain to the new China bank?
“Et tu, Canada? I asked Irvin Studin, founder of Global Brief magazine, who worked a number of years in the privy council Office (prime minister’s department) in Ottawa.
“Of course Canada should play a role in the new bank,” he said. “China is our neighbor to the west, and we should be aggressively pivoting thereto. This century, Canada will have four neighbors — not just one: ACRE, that is America, China, Russia (to our north; Canada and Russia are the Arctic giants), and Europe.”
If Britain goes first and paves the way for the rest, a tectonic shift could occur in Western leadership and influence.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/235820-will-australia-canada-and-others-follow-britain-to-the-new
@ Bubblebustin
RE; http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/235820-will-australia-canada-and-others-follow-britain-to-the-new
OH DEAR, HOW WILL THEY EVERY MAINTAIN FATCA IF ALL THE BANKS TURN THEIR BACKS TO THE US? OH DEAR…..